Overall 3,912,261 people voted
out of 6,677,079 registered. The VAP was 7,072,000 for a turnout
(% of VAP) of 55.3%.ll1992

Clinton (Dem.).....1,871,182

(43.77)

Bush (Rep.).........1,554,940

(36.38)

Perot (Ind.)............824,813

(19.30)

Others (4+w/ins)......23,738

(0.56)

Total........4,274,673

Overall 4,341,909 people voted
out of 6,147,083 registered. The VAP was 6,947,000 for a turnout
(% of VAP) of 62.5%.

Results2000

Bush/Cheney
(Rep.)

1,953,139

(46.15)

+Gore/Lieberman
(Dem.)

2,170,418

(51.28)

Browne/Olivier (Lib.)

16,711

(0.39)

Hagelin/Goldhaber(NLP)

2,426

(0.06)

Phillips/Frazier (UST)

3,791

(0.09)

Nader/LaDuke (Grn.)

84,165

(1.99)

Buchanan (w/in)

1,851

(0.04)

Total........4,232,501

Total voters: 4,279,299Turnout (% of VAP) was 58.2%

Notes: The Democratic, Republican,
Reform, Libertarian and Natural Law parties all retained ballot status
from 1998. The US Taxpayers Party of Michigan and the Green Party
of Michigan qualified by petitioning, submitting the required 30,272 valid
signatures (1 percent of the total vote cast for governor in 1998) by July
20, 2000. No Reform Party nominee appeared on the ballot because
competing factions submitted two sets of papers, one for Buchanan and one
for Hagelin.

OverviewThe battleground state of
Michigan went to Gore by a plurality of 217,279 votes (5.13 percentage
points). Bush carried 58 counties to 25 for Gore. Almost 40%
of the total vote (39.8%) comes from the Detroit area (Wayne, Oakland and
Macomb counties). Gore piled up a plurality of 307,393 votes in Wayne
county and narrowly won in Oakland and Macomb. As expected, Bush
did well in Western Michigan (Kent County/Grand Rapids and the surrounding
counties). He underperformed in the city of Detroit, and would have
had to have done better in Western Wayne county as well as in Oakland and
Macomb to carry the state.

A statewide school vouchers
initiative, Proposal 1, was overwhelmingly defeated, 69.1% to 30.9%.

In the U.S. Senate race, Rep.
Debbie Stabenow (D) defeated incumbent Sen. Spencer Abraham (R) 49.47%
to 47.86%, gaining a plurality of 67,259 votes (2,061,952 votes to 1,994,693
with 111,040 votes for five other candidates). In the 8th CD, Mike
Rogers (R) defeated Dianne Byrum (D) by just 111 votes after the recount
-- 48.79% to 48.75% (145,190 votes to 145,179 with 7,340 votes going to
four other candidates).

.
Open
primary--ballot featured three party sections: Republican, Democratic and
Reform. However, Gore and Bradley did not participate in the Democratic
primary leaving a choice between Lyndon LaRouche and Uncommitted.
The only Reform Party choices were Donald Trump and Uncommitted.

.
According
to news accounts, independents and Democrats accounted for more than half
of those voting in the Feb. 22 primary.

.
The
Michigan Democratic Party arranged about 130 caucus locations around the
state. Caucuses started at 11:00 am. More than 3,500 Democrats
showed up in person. In addition, people could vote by mail for a
number of reasons, and more than 80% of those participating in the caucuses
did so.

.
In
their initial delegate selection plan (April 9, 1999) Michigan Democrats
had proposed to hold caucuses on Saturday February 12, 2000, ten days ahead
of the New Hampshire primary, and to use vote by mail. However, the
February date violated Rule 10A of the DNC's delegate selection rules.

Total
Vote

Percent

Bill
Bradley1

3,117

16.3%

+Al
Gore

15,853

82.7%

Uncomm./Other

190

1.0%

Total

19,160

1. Sen.
Bradley withdrew on March 9, 2000.

Total
Pledged Delegates129
of 3,537 (3.6%).Total
Delegates156
of
4,335 (3.6%).

Delegates
awarded based on the proportion of the votes candidate obtains in each
of Michigan's 16 congressional districts; at least 15 percent of the vote
required in a district.